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Proverbs 30:20
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KJ21
Such is the way of an adulterous woman: she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, “I have done no wickedness.”
ASV
So is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth, and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.
AMP
This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth And says, “I have done no wrong.”
AMPC
This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, I have done no wickedness.
BRG
Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
CSB
This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I’ve done nothing wrong.”
CSBA
This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong.’
CEB
This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and she says, “I’ve done nothing wrong!”
CJB
This is how an unfaithful wife behaves: she eats, wipes her mouth, and says, “I did nothing wrong.”
CEV
An unfaithful wife says, “Sleeping with another man is as natural as eating.”
DARBY
Such is the way of an adulterous woman: she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
DRA
Such is also the way of an adulterous woman, who eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith: I have done no evil.
ERV
A woman who is not faithful to her husband acts innocent. She eats, wipes her mouth, and says she has done nothing wrong.
EASY
A woman who is not faithful to her husband does this: When she has sex with another man, she thinks it is like a meal that she has eaten. Then she washes herself and she says, ‘I have not done anything wrong.’ That is something else that I cannot understand.
EHV
This is the way of a woman who commits adultery: She eats and wipes her mouth, and she says, “I haven’t done anything wrong.”
ESV
This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I have done no wrong.”
ESVUK
This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I have done no wrong.”
EXB
“This is the way of a woman who takes part in adultery: She acts as if she had eaten and washed her face; she says, ‘I haven’t done anything wrong.’
GNV
Such is the way also of an adulterous woman: she eateth and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have not committed iniquity.
GW
This is the way of a woman who commits adultery: She eats, wipes her mouth, and says, “I haven’t done anything wrong!”
GNT
This is how an unfaithful wife acts: she commits adultery, takes a bath, and says, “But I haven't done anything wrong!”
HCSB
This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I’ve done nothing wrong.”
ICB
“This is the way a woman who takes part in adultery acts: She sins and doesn’t care. She says, ‘I haven’t done anything wrong.’
ISV
This is what an immoral woman is like: she eats, wipes her mouth, then says “I’ve done nothing wrong.”
JUB
Such is the track of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no wickedness.
KJV
Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
AKJV
Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
LSB
This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, And says, “I have done no wrong.”
LEB
This is the way of a woman committing adultery: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says “I have not done wrong.”
TLB
There is another thing too: how a prostitute can sin and then say, “What’s wrong with that?”
MSG
Here’s how a prostitute operates: she has sex with her client, Takes a bath, then asks, “Who’s next?”
MEV
Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, “I have done no wickedness.”
NOG
This is the way of a woman who commits adultery: She eats, wipes her mouth, and says, “I haven’t done anything wrong!”
NABRE
This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats, wipes her mouth, and says, “I have done no wrong.”
NASB
This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, And says, “I have done no wrong.”
NASB1995
This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, And says, “I have done no wrong.”
NCB
This is the way of an adulteress: she eats, then wipes her mouth and says, “I have done nothing wrong.”
NCV
“This is the way of a woman who takes part in adultery: She acts as if she had eaten and washed her face; she says, ‘I haven’t done anything wrong.’
NET
This is the way of an adulterous woman: she has eaten and wiped her mouth and has said, “I have not done wrong.”
NIRV
“This is the way of a woman who commits adultery. She eats and wipes her mouth. Then she says, ‘I haven’t done anything wrong.’
NIV
“This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong.’
NIVUK
‘This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I’ve done nothing wrong.”
NKJV
This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, And says, “I have done no wickedness.”
NLV
This is the way of a woman who is not faithful in marriage: She eats and washes her mouth, and says, “I have done no wrong.”
NLT
An adulterous woman consumes a man, then wipes her mouth and says, “What’s wrong with that?”
NRSVA
This is the way of an adulteress: she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done no wrong.’
NRSVACE
This is the way of an adulteress: she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done no wrong.’
NRSVCE
This is the way of an adulteress: she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, “I have done no wrong.”
NRSVUE
This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I have done no wrong.”
OJB
Such is the derech isha mena’efet (way of an adulterous woman): she eateth, and wipeth her peh (mouth), and saith, I have done no wrong.
RGT
Such is also the way of an adulterous woman. She eats and wipes her mouth, and says, “I have done no wickedness.”
RSV
This is the way of an adulteress: she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, “I have done no wrong.”
RSVCE
This is the way of an adulteress: she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, “I have done no wrong.”
TLV
Such is the way of an adulteress: she eats, wipes her mouth and says, “I have done nothing wrong.”
VOICE
An adulterous woman is so cavalier by nature. When she’s done, it is as if she washed after eating and then says, “I have done nothing wrong.”
WEB
“So is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
WYC
Such is the way of a woman adulteress, which eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I wrought not evil. (Such is the way of an adulterous woman, who eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and then saith, I have done nothing wrong.)
YLT
So -- the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, `I have not done iniquity.'
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